https://www.balloon-juice.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/balloon_juice_header_logo_grey.jpg00Tom Levensonhttps://www.balloon-juice.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/balloon_juice_header_logo_grey.jpgTom Levenson2014-03-25 17:38:412014-03-25 17:56:14The Way We Live Now

In 50 years, all those panoramic views will be deserts or under water; we will all be crusty, thirsty, hungry, and poor; your global community will consist primarily of how far you can travel on foot or horseback; India and China will be places your Elders talk about over the campfire at night for entertainment, before you turn in to your flea infested straw mattress; you will know dozens of uses for cow dung; the Moon will be just some place in the sky that legends say people went once, but you’ll think that story is bullshit; one day, you’ll find this thing buried in a landfill that your grandparents say was an iPhone, and you’ll use if to play “kick the iPhone” with your brother and other made-up games to fill in the endless hours; and so on and so on.

@Cheryl from Maryland:
I would agree with both of you except that the wonderful Better Off Ted wasn’t first. The Firesign Theatre beat them to it in 1998 with their ads for US Plus on their album Give Me Immortality or Give Me Death: “US Plus: We own the idea of America.”

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